Episode Report Card Demian: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Suck This
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.17.2002
Downstairs, the gang trundles through the second-floor hallway into Raige's darkened room, calling her name repeatedly as they go. Piper switches on a desk lamp as Phoebe, The Sole, and the Dolt scan the seemingly empty room. "Where did she go?" asks Piper. The camera pulls up and back to reveal Raige, suspended upside-down from the ceiling, seconds before Phoebe spots Raige herself. Phoebe screams, and the others turn just as Raige morphs into a "bat." Rodentia Raige flutters out the open window. Hold the e-mails. I know that bats aren't really rodents, but for one thing, "Chiroptera Raige" sounds silly, and for another, which scenario do you find more likely: the Charmed production staff hiring a bat wrangler, or the Charmed production staff hot-gluing scraps of black plastic trash bags to plush toys and running the results along thin strands of piano wire? Get my point? Good. Phoebe and Piper stare out the window as the shot tracks back into commercial.
Manor attic. Phoebe dumps cloves of garlic and a couple of wooden crosses onto a table as Piper asks the Dolt if he could be a dear and fetch them some holy water. He promises to find some. The Sole, from the background, delicately reminds them that garlic and holy water won't "change [Raige] back." Piper has that one covered: if they vanquish Lizzie, all of her minions die with her. The Sole interjects that this is news to him. Seems the vampires have been fairly adept at keeping that little secret to themselves. He's also pretty damn stoked to be receiving this information as evinced by the gleeful and giddy pee-pee dance he's doing in his corner of the attic. Piper notes further that Raige's newly discovered vampire leanings should disappear if they manage to vanquish Lizzie before Raige has a chance to kill anyone. Unfortunately, the Lizzie vanquish is a Power of Three. Also, all vampires are immune to a witch's powers, so no freezing them or blowing them up, either. The Dolt orbs out to inform TPTB of the new Source and fetch a bottle of holy water while he's at it. The Sole, too-casually, is all, "Source? A new Source? There's a new Source? What? Who?" The gals confirm this, but admit they haven't a clue who the demon may be. The Sole heaves a slight sigh of relief. Piper and Phoebe determine the most likely place to find a bloodsucker is a cemetery, and so scoop up the vampire paraphernalia to exit the Manor. The Sole tries to prevent Phoebe from leaving, holding up her recent fainting spell as a valid excuse not to go. Piper gives him the wicked side-eye and grits her teeth but remains silent as Phoebe lays down the law for her man. Raige is "still my sister," Phoebe asserts, showing a bit of spine for once, "and that doesn't change just because I happen to be sick, or because I'm your wife." Phoebe strides out of the attic. Piper pauses to look down her nose at her brother-in-law, then follows her sister down the stairs. The Sole blazes out of the attic...